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Cambridge's Silicon Fen Loses Cachet
As Growing Tech Firms Drift Away

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David Pringle Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 5, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

CAMBRIDGE, England -- Flush with Cambridge's success at producing top technology companies, Prime Minister Tony Blair stood up in the canteen of the city's Science Park in September 1999 and invited more budding entrepreneurs to relocate here.

"There's no reason Europe can't rival America," he declared to a group of local businessmen...